10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «HUMOURSOMENESS»
Discover the use of
humoursomeness in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to
humoursomeness and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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Pantologia: A New Cyclopaedia, Comprehending a Complete ...
(front/rank.) Capricious; humoursome (L'Iz'rlrange). FRE'AKISH LY. ad. (
fromfrcalu's/t.) Capricionsly; humoursomely. FRE'AKISHXESS. s. (fromfreakt'shJ
Caprieiousness; humoursomeness, whimsicalHess. To FREAM. v. n. (fin/uire,
Latin.) ...
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Norwood; or, Village in New England
His face testified by its texture to right living ; by its whole frame and shape to
largeness of nature ; by its eye and brow to sagacity and thoughtfulness ; by its
mouth to a suppressed humoursomeness. Here was stuff for a statesman. He
might ...
3
The Autobiography and Correspondence of Mary Granville, Mrs. ...
... the better of any humoursomeness (a strange word) as in the discipline of a
school ; and he most heartily wishes and prays, that the excellent foundation you
have laid in your children's early education may procure you all the happiness
you ...
Mrs. Delany (Mary), Augusta Hall Llanover, 1861
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Biographical Memoirs of Medicine in Great Britain: From the ...
He " made his humoursomeness to become him 5 " wherein some of his
profeffion have rather ' '' aped than imitated him, who had morositateno "
fflquabilem, and kept the tenor of the same " surliness to all persons." DR.
BUTLER seems to ...
5
Walker's Critical Pronouncing Dictionary and Expositor of ...
To Freak, freke,u.cr. To variegate; to chequer. Freakish, freke-lsh, a. Capricious,
humour- some. Freakishly, freke£ish-l£, ad. Capriciously, humoursomely.
Freakishness, freke^lsh-ne'ss, ». Capricious- ness, whimsicalness,
humoursomeness.
to be swayed by irrational humours ; for nothing doth more detract from authority,
than humoursomeness : because servants, not having any standing measure of
what will please such a master, will at last grow careless of it ; and despise the ...
Ezekiel Hopkins, Charles William Quick, 1863
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A New General English Dictionary; Peculiarly Calculated for ...
... PARTl'CULARNESS (S.) humoursomeness, singularity, uncommonnesa,
preciseness, &e. PART'CULARl'ZE (V.) to enumerate one by one, to name,
mention, shew, or set forth, in the several conditions or circumsiances os a thing
or affair.
Thomas Dyche, William Pardon, 1740
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The Autobiography and Correspondence of Mary Granville: With ...
... have at home), nor get the better of any humoursomeness (a strange word) as
in the discipline of a school; and he most heartily wishes and prays, that the
excellent foundation you have laid in your children's early education may procure
you ...
Mary Granville Delany, Augusta Waddington Hall (Lady Llanover.), 1861
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The History of the Suffering of the Church of Scotland from ...
The western shires, in order to palliate present severities against them, are
branded with “humoursomeness, schism, and sedition.” It was a pretty strong
humour indeed that made presbyterians sufi'er so much as they did, without
rising in ...
... quality of each object and incident. It is often in the broadest grinning style, but
now and then subtle and finely hinted. It is partly in this latter manner' that she
alludes to an occasion on which she had witnessed a certain humoursomeness
in.
Samuel Greatheed, Daniel Parken, Theophilus Williams, 1810
